EXPLORING STUDENTS ACADEMIC HELP SEEKING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT

Authors

  • Al Amini Indah Sari State University of Makassar image/svg+xml
  • Murni Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM)
  • Sahril Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM)

Keywords:

Help-Seeking,, Learning Achievement, Help-Seeking Strategies, Help-Seeking Avoidance

Abstract

This study addresses the issue of Help Seeking Behavior and its Relationship with students English Achievement Help Seeking Strategies and Help Seeking Avoidance with special attention to the point of view of Second Year Students of MA Madani Alauddin Pao Pao Mixed Method was used to carry out this study with the use of Convergent Parallel Design as the design to simultaneously collect both quantitative and qualitative data and with the support from data collection instrument i e Documentation Questionnaire and Interview Three groups of the second year students were purposively to participate in this study Fifteen students representing the second year students as interviewee Results revealed four things namely: the first there is a positive relationship between students help seeking behavior and students English achievement based on the questionnaire results The second there is no significant correlation between students academic help seeking behavior and students English achievement with the results of SEM Analysis which all of the p values were gt; 0 05 The third there are 3 strategies used formal help seeking; informal help seeking; and doing instrumental actions The fourth there are many reasons of students to avoid seeking help including laziness low self esteem anxiety uncomfortable feeling and help providers attitude This study results showed that help seeking continue to be an important self regulatory skill The researcher believes that these findings could have a profound impact on the way of Help Seeking is used and viewed Therefore English teachers should provide more opportunities to learn this skill to enable students apply it in their academic difficulties < span>< em>< p>

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Author Biographies

  • Murni, Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM)

    Professor in English Literature Department

  • Sahril, Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM)

    Lecturer of English Language and Literature Department

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2023-09-05

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EXPLORING STUDENTS ACADEMIC HELP SEEKING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT. (2023). Journal of English Language and Literature Teaching, 8(1), 431 447. https://ejurnal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt/article/view/5906

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